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theworldofetgoma-blog Β· 30 days ago
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πŸ‰ Books for Read Palestine Week 2024 [ Nov 29 - Dec 5 ]
✨ This guide will no doubt get hidden, given the topic, so please help me by sharing this!
❓What are you reading this week?
πŸ‰ Educate and empathize! Here are 82 books you can read for Read Palestine Week! I've included 26 queer books for those of you who #readqueerallyear as well. Please read these books to learn more about the Palestinian experience. Shukran (thank you)!
✨ Poetry πŸ‰ Enemy of the Sun - (ed) Edmund Ghareeb and Naseer Aruri πŸ‰ A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan πŸ‰ So What - Taha Muhammad Ali πŸ‰ Affiliation - Mira Mattar πŸ‰ The Butterfly's Burden - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite - Suheir Hammad πŸ‰ Breaking Poems - Suheir Hammad πŸ‰ In the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd πŸ‰ My Voice Sought the Wind - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ Blood Orange - Yaffa πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Before the Next Bomb Drops - Remi Kanazi πŸ‰ Birthright - George Abraham πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Tent Generations - Various πŸ‰ Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Some Things Never Leave You - Zeina Azzam πŸ‰ I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti πŸ‰ Nothing More To Lose - Najwan Darwish πŸ‰ The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan πŸ‰ Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear - Mosab Abu Toha πŸ‰ Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo πŸ‰ Water & Salt -Lena Khalaf Tuffaha πŸ‰ Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. - Noor Hindi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
✨ Non-Fiction/Memoirs πŸ‰ Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman - N.S. Nuseibeh πŸ‰ The Trinity of Fundamentals - Wisam Rafeedie πŸ‰ Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - Ahed Tamimi & Dena Takruri πŸ‰ Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation - Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan πŸ‰ Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine - Ibtisam Barakat πŸ‰ We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance - Linda Sarsour πŸ‰ Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean πŸ‰ Voices of the Nakba - Diana Allan πŸ‰ Tracing Homelands - Linda Dittmar πŸ‰ Black Power & Palestine - Michael R. Fischbach πŸ‰ The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan PappΓ© πŸ‰ A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall πŸ‰ A Land with a People - Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, & Sarah Sills πŸ‰ Inara by Mx. Yaffa AS πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Mural - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Light in Gaza - Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, & Michael Merryman lotze πŸ‰ The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein πŸ‰ Gaza - Norman Finkelstein
✨ Fiction πŸ‰ A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Minor Detail - Adania Shibli πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Philistine - Leila Marshy πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Muneera and the Moon - Sonia Sulaiman πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Belladonna - Anbara Salam πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Behind You Is The Sea - Susan Muaddi Darraj πŸ‰ The Coin - Yasmin Zaher πŸ‰ Guapa - Saleem Haddad πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Parisian - Isabella Hammad πŸ‰ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan πŸ‰ The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah πŸ‰ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh πŸ‰ They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories - Sheikha Helawy πŸ‰ Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad πŸ‰ Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh πŸ‰ A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum πŸ‰ Mother of Strangers - Suad Amiry πŸ‰ Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Book of Ramallah - Maya Abu Al-Hayat
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Graphic Novels πŸ‰ Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas πŸ‰ Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger πŸ‰ Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh πŸ‰ My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad
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jessread-s Β· 1 year ago
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✩ πŸ’œπŸΈBook Fanart:
πŸ“–: Trystan and Evie from β€œAssistant to the Villain” by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
This post is in collaboration with my sister @binjobo.0, who drew this lovely masterpiece as a birthday gift to me 🀩
Please click this link to show their art account some love.
Cross-posted to:Β Instagram | Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph
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mr-laveau Β· 3 months ago
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POV: Your hot demon boyfriend was taking too long to text you back so you also texted your other hot demon boyfriends to start shit
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leannareneehieber Β· 8 months ago
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GOTHIC & DARK ACADEMIA ENTHUSIASTS!
DARLINGS! Just noticed the double-volume revised edition of STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL via @torbooks is on super-eBook-sale right now. 684 pages! For only $3.99! Via Kindle, Kobo & Apple Books! Includes THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER and THE DARKLY LUMINOUS FIGHT FOR PERSEPHONE PARKER + extra scenes & content.
This book of my heart is: GOTHIC. It's Jane-Eyre-Meets-Dark-Academia+Hot-For-Teacher+GHOSTS+Greek-Mythology+Jack-the-Ripper+Found-Family
YES, there is a paperback omnibus edition, available via Bookshop.org (my favorite link to send folks to, it supports local bookstores!), B&N and any physical store can order it in. It's on sale too!
Please share? Thank you!
Kindle - Kobo - Apple Books
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how-bout-i-tell-you-anyway Β· 10 months ago
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ok, i'm just going to say it. there's a reason that some of us like reading monster/alien romance just as much as maybe even more than regular romance.
and no, it's not about the supernatural dicks (at least not for me).
in short, it's about respect. obviously, the monster/alien comes from a place somewhere other than human society on planet Earth. because of that, he is completely ignorant of the sexist bias inherent in our society. (and by inherent i mean literally trained into us since birth and embedded in every aspect of our society)
sometimes the monster's views are more misogynistic β€” but in those stories the heroine manages to change his views by earning his respect as they navigate their inter-special differences (aka, he learns and fixes himself).
usually, the monsters believe strongly in equality between the sexes, and they are often shocked and horrified if/when they learn of how human men treat their partners. [and yes, i know some of them are over-the-top protective to the point of being controlling, but even then it's because they view the heroines as someone to continuously be protected, cherished, and respected.]
TLDR: it's an escape into a romantic fantasy where the love interest is GUARANTEED to be a good partner because he literally could never think to harm, insult, or disrespect the heroine
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kaceypink Β· 1 year ago
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Check Out Leah!!
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If you were reunited with your lost love would you pet her? Even if she smelled like wet dog?
Checkout my Novel Sanctuary: Crossing the River here: pinkkacey.itch.io/sanctuary-crossing-the-river ((The uncensored image is there too, done by Adabear_Bones)) Obviously based on this image you can expect an adult content. Its a romance novel, featuring werewolves, trans bodies, and lesbians.
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rouphicc Β· 1 year ago
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― H.D. Carlton,Β Haunting Adeline
this quote says it y'all. <3
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carriehobbs Β· 4 months ago
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if i can be honest here this is really one of my least favourite parts of the way the romances are written. the idea that you can only really fall in love once (and both the related ideas that, if this love is real, then every other relationship you've had must not have really been love and that, if you have been in love before, your previous love somehow cheapens the current love) is so completely juvenile. it's the kind of line of thought you'd expect to see in a young adult novel marketed exclusively to 12- to 16-year-olds for whom every emotion feels like the most intense, ultimate feeling they could ever have, and who do not yet have the life experiences to understand (or appreciate) the complexities of love. "i've only ever loved this one person this way, every other feeling i've thought was love has just been a poor imitation" is a pretty thought but is ultimately a fantasy (and one that i, personally, find incredibly disrespectful towards people who have been in love and then fall in love again).
it would be one thing if this idea was espoused by only one of the characters. if only n (just as an example) bought into the idea that only one love can be your true love, then that would say something about n's character, their romantic and life history, the way they view and interpret the world, etc. but instead all of the ros seem to follow this line of thought - they've all never been in real love before, if they and the detective broke up they'd never experience this kind of love again, they're all soulmates, etc. and in that way this idea is not a characterization choice for particular characters, but an idea perpetuated by the work as a whole. and in my (biased and personal) opinion, it's a childish and unrealistic idea.
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comic-sans-chan Β· 9 months ago
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cursed modern human garashir au where ds9 is an old ruined resort that was built by some evil rich motherfuckers years ago and was recently seized back by the native people whose land and economy it had destroyed. it's since been converted into an affordable apartment complex sort of situation (just... with a pool, bar, restaraunts, spa and tennis court built into it lol) and is run by sisko and kira. since it is rundown, odo gets hired back on to keep kids from further vandalizing it and o'brien's team gets hired on from the nonprofit organization sisko works for to fix the place up best he can. dukat is the old overseer of the property who drops by sometimes to remind them he and his hospitality business still exist, and my, what a fine job they’ve done renovating the place! it’s actually nice again. sure would be a shame if someone bought the property out from under them (lmao jk kardasi hospitality and starfleet are friends! no hard feelings. they should collaborate on some future projects, actually).
garak's a sad bitch who just lost his amazing morally dubious nepotism career at obsidian corp. (which absorbed kardasi hospitality) and moved into the complex just for the comfortingly familiar architecture. even tho he's not on the payroll for his (secret) dad's evil exploitative company anymore he's still vital to its continued efficiency and is an absolute sucker who still does unpaid shady work for them from time to time. so no one in the complex likes him, but also he's a very pleasant and fastidious queer man who pays his rent on time and has completely taken over the laundry room, to the benefit of everyone, because all the machines actually work now, it's always tidy, and there's a variety of forever-stocked detergents and soaps available, plus an iron?? there was not an iron before garak moved in. which is how it eventually becomes public knowledge that garak has an online tailoring and fashion design business, and he's actually pretty good at restoring clothes that get fucked by the washing machine or eaten by rats, soooo. yeah. they let him stick around.
meanwhile julian's a hot doctor who works at the local hospital and is absolutely buried in student debt that he refuses to let his moderately-wealthy family help him with because they're awful people who had him on illegal drugs without his knowledge since he was a little kid. they were afraid he had something wrong with him, apparently. he was too far behind in his class or w/e. they couldn't handle having a kid with special needs, so they pumped him full of dangerous experimental stimulants. only reason he found out is because he snuck off somewhere to start transitioning and had some tests done that revealed all the crazy shit in his system. he's insanely lucky he didn't end up in the hospital with seizures or fall into a coma or worse. not to mention his parents still dead-name him left and right over a decade later. it's a whole mess and a huge secret, because he technically has a history with illegal drug abuse, and it's a partially ongoing history because going cold turkey off drugs he's been on since he was six is Not A Good Idea, so??? fuck his life, actually. he lives in the apartment just down the hall from garak's.Β 
garak hates the country his dad's company expanded into and would like nothing better than to move back home, but it's not really logistically possible. especially since everyone there hates him cuz his (secret) dad's company is a mega-corporation that's completely taken over everything p much and is a complete monopoly nightmare, and he did... kinda... work there for decades. no one would hire him if he went back. it would be an extreme conflict of interest, since everyone wants to stay on tain's good side, including garak. but starfleet is interested in him, so he does some begrudging contract work for them sometimes, but he really has no desire to join them. he just wants to resume his old career and reclaim his assets.
julian's hospital is owned by starfleet, tho. his scholarship into medical school was also from starfleet, in fact--they're the only reason he was able to (sort of) afford becoming a doctor at all. so he's a big fan, even tho they are pretty hardcore anti-drugs in a way that's made him have to forge medical records and risk serious legal charges and prison time. julian comes across as a squeaky clean medical professional and an adorable idiot, but he's intimately familiar with back-alley dealings. which is kind of how he ends up helping garak with his drug addiction, and keeps said addiction off the record.
but basically, how it begins is julian likes to support the local restaurants in the complex and garak finds him there and thinks he's gorgeous, and it proceeds as expected. they fuck nasty and become codependent. ten years later, julian lives in a modest house with garak in his home country and garak irons all his old university hoodies.
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theworldofetgoma-blog Β· 30 days ago
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meteortrails Β· 4 days ago
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there’s something very interesting to me about how a lot of wangxian’s early romantic interactions are uhhhhh. often dubiously consensual at best? and not even really in a like, regency novel β€˜I knew they wanted it (and was correct in that assumption)’ way - they both beat themselves up for doing it after the fact. instead, it ends up leaving more of an impression of immaturity, especially in their reactions in the aftermath. they’re too ashamed or scared of rejection to outright ask for what they want, and so end up taking it by force and then rebuking themselves for ever wanting it in the first place afterwards. it’s part of why it’s kinda vital that when they finally get together, it’s wwx being embarrassingly honest in front of a whole group of people - he willingly makes himself vulnerable for lwj, and accepts whatever consequences come with that. like idk I just think wangxian is very much a relationship about like, growth and acceptance, and this is a microcosm of those themes that doesn’t really get discussed
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mediamatinees Β· 4 months ago
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Smackdown Pen vs Reel Chapter Nine: Red, White & Royal Blue Continues to Be the Perfect Political Romance We Didn't Know We Needed
Content Warning: Red, White & Royal Blue contains discussions of homophobia, family drama played out in public and in private, brief discussions of racism and xenophobia, and trauma related to abandonment and familial death. It’s also a romcom but the angst was angsting. Reader/viewer discretion is advised. Spoilers for Red, White & Royal Blue ahead! At long last! Due to 2023’s entertainment…
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mermaidsirennikita Β· 4 months ago
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EVERYONE!
Elizabeth Hoyt is LEGIT returning to us with No Ordinary Duchess on 12/10!
And I know this because.... I just got an ARC! Aaaaaaah!!!!!
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curls-cat Β· 3 months ago
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i think i finally finished the first full draft of the book i started writing for my grad school thesis
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why-is-james-on-here Β· 11 months ago
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The people who shrug off tiktok and other social media platforms dominating the books that get popular are missing the point. The issue isn't that teen girls are reading, the issue is that they don't want to admit that what they're reading is trashy romance/erotica. They insist on calling it "fantasy romance" or "mystery" or "dark academia" and those labels are never accurate.
This means that the books they push and make popular are getting sorted into genres they don't belong to and suffocating all the others. I've seen far too many bookstores (physical and online) where stuff that is just erotica with some minor fantasy elements (cough cough Fourth Wing) is put front and center in the fantasy section. And every time, it takes up half the shelf, shoving aside everything that belongs there.
There's nothing wrong with liking porn disguised as fantasy romance or a thriller, there's plenty wrong with choking the life out of actual fantasy and thrillers.
People need to acknowledge the genres of what they like, and if they don't, then the rest of us need to remind them.
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